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Nevertheless, the 19th-century Danish philosopher was confident that history would offer him a warmer reception than his contemporaries did.

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The English-speaking world knew virtually nothing about Kierkegaard until , when a book of selections were rendered into English. In thousands of pages of personal jottings, Kierkegaard did not mention his mother once, and yet his journals swim with notes about his autodidact father. Some would call it a scar…. His father confided that the endless treks to the cemetery were all part of a divine punishment for his boyhood curse against God.

In , Kierkegaard entered the University of Copenhagen. At the behest of his father, he matriculated in theology, but he studied widely in the liberal arts. The most important literary figure of this era was the Danish playwright Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Kierkegaard attached himself to the lively coterie surrounding Heiberg. In , he was reconciled with his father, who died suddenly the next year.

Explaining that he could no longer argue with a dead man, he began to apply himself. In , he passed his exams, and a year later he finished his dissertation, On the Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates. This magisterial study, comparing the use of irony in the Romantic age with the irony of antiquity, shows the positive impress of the reigning philosopher of the time, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel In , when Kierkegaard was twenty-four, he had met and fallen in love with the fourteen-year-old Regine Olsen.

Just over three years later they became engaged. Almost immediately after the engagement Kierkegaard began to have second thoughts. Thirteen months later he broke it off.